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1401321

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Vaccine Manufacturing and Innovation Centre
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what discussions he has had with officials in his Department on the sale of the Vaccine Manufacturing Innovation Centre.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	100674
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The Vaccine Taskforce and UK Research and Innovation are working closely with VMIC, which is a private company, to ensure the UK has a strong domestic vaccine manufacturing capability to contribute to the UK’s resilience against COVID-19 and other future health emergencies. At present these discussions are commercially sensitive.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 13/01/2022 17:30:36 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1401386

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Coronavirus: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 9 November 2021 to Question 69687, whether the Government delivered the 20 million covid-19 vaccine doses due to be donated by the Government by the end of 2021 to countries in need.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	100676
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>On 30 December. the Government announced that we had met the target to donate 30 million COVID-19 vaccines by the end of 2021. We also reiterated our plan for millions more vaccines to be sent to other countries in 2022, including 20 million more Oxford-AstraZeneca doses and 20 million Janssen doses.</p><p> </p><p>Of the over 30 million vaccines we have donated; approximately 25.4m have been received by COVAX, and 5.5m have been delivered directly by the UK to countries in need. These donations have benefitted more than 30 countries. The majority, 23.3m, of these donations have now arrived at their final destination, with 7.6 million of the doses received by COVAX that remain to be shipped to recipient countries in the next few weeks.</p><p> </p><p>In addition to life saving vaccine, the Government have also recently pledged £105m of UK emergency aid to help vulnerable countries tackle Omicron, with a particular focus on Africa.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman question first answered 13/01/2022 17:30:47 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran

1401473

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Parental Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, pursuant to the Answer of 26 April 2018 to Question 137053, the Answer of 20 May 2019 to Question 254256, the Answer of 24 September 2020 to Question 95140 and the Answer of 19 July 2021 to Question 32423 on Parental Leave, when he plans to publish the report of his Department's evaluation of the Shared Parental Leave scheme.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	100575
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>Evaluating Shared Parental Leave and Pay is an important part of the policymaking process.</p><p>As part of the evaluation, we commissioned large, representative surveys of parents and employees which asked about a range of parental leave and pay entitlements as well as their experience of Shared Parental Leave specifically. We also consulted on high-level options for reforming parental leave and pay.</p><p>We are currently analysing this information and will publish our findings in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 13/01/2022 15:34:58 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1401536

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Parental Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent steps he has taken to encourage the take up of shared parental leave.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	100576
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>In order to make it easier for parents to access Shared Parental Leave, and easier for employers to administer it, the Government also launched a new online tool last year. This shows how many weeks of leave and pay are available and lets parents map out how weeks will be shared with their partner, supporting conversations with employers.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the Government is evaluating the Shared Parental Leave and Pay scheme, which will help us understand what would enable more parents to take up the entitlement. We will publish the findings in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 13/01/2022 15:33:10 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1401537

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Parental Leave
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to collect data on the uptake of parental leave entitlements.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	100577
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>HMRC routinely collect data on the uptake of parental pay entitlements which provides some useful indicators of leave uptake.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is currently undertaking an evaluation of the Shared Parental Leave and Pay scheme. This evaluation will include survey and administrative HMRC data on the uptake of the Maternity, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave and Pay schemes in recent years. We will publish the findings in due course.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 13/01/2022 15:33:56 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1401538

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Employment Tribunals Service
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans he has to extend the time limit for employment tribunals.
tabling member constituency	Ellesmere Port and Neston
tabling member printed	Justin Madders
uin	100578
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>A claim to an Employment Tribunal must usually be made within three months. For certain claims, redundancy pay or equal pay, the claim must be made within six months. The Employment Tribunals already have the discretion to allow claims submitted out of time, on a case by basis.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 13/01/2022 15:31:55 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4418 label Biography information for Justin Madders

1401576

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Plastics: Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to support research into new zero carbon methods of producing plastics in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	100539
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The billions we are investing in R&amp;D, skills and support for digital technology adoption through initiatives like Made Smarter and Help to Grow is providing a competitive business environment for British manufacturers. It is attracting new investment, developing new export opportunities, and securing new high-value jobs in our industrial heartlands.</p><p> </p><p>UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funds a variety of projects related to plastics including projects improving sustainability and recyclability of plastics in the UK. For example, the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge, with £60m of funding from UKRI through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and matched by £149m from industry, is supporting academic-led research to address known problems and to support industry-led collaborative research and development of new technologies, de-risking innovative plastics sustainability projects, and delivering over 230kt per annum of additional recycling capacity. The output of this capacity is intended to be used back in packaging and will make a real contribution to the gap of recycled plastics in the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The introduction of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging will see businesses that place packaging on the market bear responsibility for the costs of managing that packaging once it becomes waste. It will incentivise businesses to design and use packaging that is easier to recycle, and to increase the recycling of packaging waste.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, The UK Plastic Packaging Tax will be introduced from 1 April 2022 to encourage the use of recycled plastic in packaging, and in turn stimulate increased levels of recycling and collection of plastic waste, diverting it away from landfill or incineration. It is estimated that this will lead to an increase in the use of recycled plastic by 40% in 2022-23.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 100540 question first answered 13/01/2022 17:30:26 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1401577

registered interest
date	10/01/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Plastics: Manufacturing Industries
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to increase the proportion of plastics consumed in the UK which are (a) manufactured in the UK and (b) recyclable in the UK.
tabling member constituency	Newcastle upon Tyne Central
tabling member printed	Chi Onwurah
uin	100540
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The billions we are investing in R&amp;D, skills and support for digital technology adoption through initiatives like Made Smarter and Help to Grow is providing a competitive business environment for British manufacturers. It is attracting new investment, developing new export opportunities, and securing new high-value jobs in our industrial heartlands.</p><p> </p><p>UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funds a variety of projects related to plastics including projects improving sustainability and recyclability of plastics in the UK. For example, the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge, with £60m of funding from UKRI through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and matched by £149m from industry, is supporting academic-led research to address known problems and to support industry-led collaborative research and development of new technologies, de-risking innovative plastics sustainability projects, and delivering over 230kt per annum of additional recycling capacity. The output of this capacity is intended to be used back in packaging and will make a real contribution to the gap of recycled plastics in the UK.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The introduction of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging will see businesses that place packaging on the market bear responsibility for the costs of managing that packaging once it becomes waste. It will incentivise businesses to design and use packaging that is easier to recycle, and to increase the recycling of packaging waste.</p><p> </p><p>Finally, The UK Plastic Packaging Tax will be introduced from 1 April 2022 to encourage the use of recycled plastic in packaging, and in turn stimulate increased levels of recycling and collection of plastic waste, diverting it away from landfill or incineration. It is estimated that this will lead to an increase in the use of recycled plastic by 40% in 2022-23.</p> answering member constituency Mid Norfolk answering member printed George Freeman grouped question UIN 100539 question first answered 13/01/2022 17:30:26 answering member 4020 label Biography information for George Freeman
tabling member	4124 label Biography information for Chi Onwurah

1400337

registered interest
date	06/01/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Weddings: Coronavirus
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what support the Government has made available for local authorities to support wedding industry businesses and those in the supply chain for that sector that have been affected by the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Sedgefield
tabling member printed	Paul Howell
uin	99089
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The Omicron Hospitality and Leisure Grant provides local councils with one-off grant funding to support  hospitality, leisure and accommodation businesses in England.  Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-youre-eligible-for-the-omicron-hospitality-and-leisure-grant" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-youre-eligible-for-the-omicron-hospitality-and-leisure-grant</a>.</p><p> </p><p>The Additional Restrictions Grant (ARG) provides local councils with grant funding to support businesses that are severely impacted by coronavirus and the rise of the Omicron variant, which are not eligible for other grant funding. Further information can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-youre-eligible-for-the-coronavirus-additional-restrictions-grant" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-if-youre-eligible-for-the-coronavirus-additional-restrictions-grant</a>.</p> answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully question first answered 13/01/2022 15:30:46 answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully previous answer version 42835 answering member constituency Sutton and Cheam answering member printed Paul Scully answering member 4414 label Biography information for Paul Scully
tabling member	4830 label Biography information for Paul Howell

1400345

registered interest
date	06/01/2022
answering body	Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept id	201
answering dept short name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
answering dept sort name	Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
hansard heading	Construction: Companies
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what recent estimate the Government has made of the number of general building firms operating within the repair, maintenance and improvement sector in England.
tabling member constituency	Wyre Forest
tabling member printed	Mark Garnier
uin	98918
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/01/2022 answer text <p>The repair, maintenance and improvement sector (RMI) is not part of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC). Therefore, whilst the Government has data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) regarding the number of construction businesses operating, we do not maintain a database on how many of these businesses operate in the RMI sector, either solely or partially.</p><p> </p><p>The most recent <em>Construction Statistics annual tables</em> were published by the ONS in December 2021 and relate to 2020 (please find the relevant data attached). Table 1.4 shows the value of RMI work carried out by businesses in different SIC sectors in Great Britain, and Table 3.5 provides information on the number of employees in such businesses, although the data does not show whether or not they undertake RMI work.</p><p> </p><p>The ONS also publishes data on business counts by sector, country and legal status. The following data relates to March 2021 and only includes construction businesses in England which are registered for VAT and/or PAYE. It relates to SIC sector 412: Construction of residential and non-residential buildings, and it is therefore not specific to the RMI sector:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Legal Status</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Company (including building society)</p></td><td><p>51,840</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sole proprietor</p></td><td><p>7,365</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Partnership</p></td><td><p>1,575</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Column Total</p></td><td><p><strong>60,775</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p> </p><p>“Company” includes both limited by shares and limited liability partnerships, and “partnerships” refers to unlimited liability partnerships.</p> answering member constituency North East Derbyshire answering member printed Lee Rowley grouped question UIN 98919 98920 98921 98922 98923 98924 question first answered 13/01/2022 16:26:23 answering member 4652 label Biography information for Lee Rowley attachment 1 file name UIN 98918-24 - Mark Garnier MP - Value and employees - RMI sector.xlsx title Value and employees - RMI sector
tabling member	4074 label Biography information for Mark Garnier